Masuda Akari

"I still believe in miracles! I'm Masuda Akari."

- Akari's Stage Introduction Catchphrase

Akari Masuda (増田 灯) is a member of AKB0048's 151st Generation and the co-captain of AKB0048's Team K.

Akari is also known as Akarin (あかりん). She's a cheerful and energetic girl who can be serious from times to times. She comes from the planet Aleenstar and grew up with the believe, music and entertainment would be evil and that AKB0048 would be a group of terrorists. After entering the auditions without wanting it, her view of AKB0048 and the world changed.

Appearance
Akari has long, brown hair and amber-coloured eyes. She usually wears her hair open with two little braids at the sides which end up in another small braid at the back of her head. She has got a pale skin. Similar to other 0048 members, she has got a heart-shaped light reflection on her eye. Her eyes are amber-coloured and she has got heart-shaped light reflections in her eyes too. As well, there’s a spiral-like light reflection. The reason of this is unknown.

Akari doesn’t care much about her appearance as long as she looks a bit nice. She has a bad fashion sense and isn’t very good in choosing fitting clothes. This chaotic style has become her usual style. She has many red clothing pieces as this is her favourite colour. The exact hue varies. Though the singles, Akari is seen with different hairstyles. She prefers her usual hairstyle over those.

Personality
Akari is an energetic but also serious girl. She can be polite and well behaved, but usually doesn't do so. She describes herself to be "open for everything". She's friendly, even though she isn't the "nicest person in the world"-type but rather someone, you could consider as a close friend who also sometimes jokes about yourself. Akari is also stubborn and stays with her opinions for a long time. Akari can be arrogant about topics, she really believes in. Thus, in the past, she was arrogant about the topic entertainment ban.

Akari isn't a great singer and she prefers dancing over it. In general, she prefers rather quick songs over ballads. She's also good in talking to other people and persuading them. As well, because she has a huge love for history, she has the tendency to know many things about past things. In diffrent to other subjects, her history grades are actually quite good.

History
Akari grew up on Aleenstar, a planet which supports the D.G.T.O., the DES and the entertainment ban. Akari did so too. She believed that AKB0048 would be a group of terrorists and didn't want to be connected to the group at all.

One day, however, a friend of Akari, who originally came from Atamistar and was in secret fan of 0048, saw the audition page of the 150th Generation open. However, she didn't want to try as she believed that they would blackmail her to the police. However, though the time until the 151st Generation audition was open, she slowly showed them music. Most of the group started to like them - all but Akari who refused. When the 151st Generation audition was open for applicants, they ended up with persuading Akari to try it - they wouldn't be allowed to join either way. A bit later, she ended up beliving that the group would go to a trip somewhere while the holidays. She didn't know that the "trip" would be to the Flying Get of AKB0048. However, on the way to the second station towards the Flying Get, the girls were almost found by DES soldiers. Without really wanting it, Akari (and her friends) were rescued by some WOTAs who wanted to help the hopefuls. At the point, Akari actually saw another video with way better quality of AKB and wonderd, if they really were so bad. On the way to the Flying Get, she changed her mind.

Team History
151st Generation → 151st Generation & Team 00 → 151st Generation & Team K
 * Joining the 151st Generation of Trainees (0123.05.15)
 * Promoted to Team 00 (Formation) (0123.06.17)
 * Transfer to Team K (Formation) (Halloween Shuffle) (0123.10.31

Etymology
Masuda is written as 増田.

増 ("Zo", here pronouned as "Masu") can be translated as Increase and 田 ("Ta", here pronounced as "Da") as field.

Akari is written as 灯.

灯 ("Akari") can be translated as glimmer or light.

Screenshots
For other pictures, please see Akari's Category.

Achievements

 * -|Senbatsu Sousenkyo=
 * Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0123 - #1 (Center)
 * Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0124 - #5 (Senbatsu)


 * -|Janken Taikai=
 * Janken Taikai SC 0123 - 11th Place (Lost to Matsuto Nami)

Trivia

 * Favourite Song in the New Era: Kibou no Chronicle
 * Favourite Word: Miracle (奇跡, Kiseki)
 * Favourite Book: Akibastar: For our Freedom
 * This book is a historical book over the war which 'created' the underground city of Akibastar.
 * Her auddittion song was Kyou made no Melody.
 * After hearing from Member-Shippings, she started to love them.
 * Her current favourite shipping is MiyaMiya.
 * She wants to succed Oshima Yuko because she overcame the ace of AKB48 in the Senbatsu Sousenkyo.
 * Her goal for the Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0123 was beeing in the Top 2 which she achieved with her 1st Place.
 * In her original design, she looked much more simular to the 9th Yuuko as in her current.
 * Plays the main character Shinji in Majisuka Gakuen 00.
 * It actually was possible to Akari to rank higher in the last Janken Taikai . However, her move set was changed, because the player of Nami only had one character left while Akari's player still had all.
 * Akari tends to be able to notice all conversaitions which are about her home planet Aleenstar.